What happens when a small French indie studio gets their hands on one of Data East's best franchises?

I played a ton of Magical Drop 3 back in the day. It's probably best game made by Data East. Sorry Windjammers and Street Hoop. However Data East died in the early 2000s, so I was a bit surprised to see a new Magical Drop pop up in Steam. I bought it for five euros when it was released.

What I expected: Magical Drop HDWhat I got: Magical Drop for Tablets

Full of bugs and questionable design choices, this was a major letdown for me. Even though the game is sharper and higher resolution, the art and effects used look a lot worse than in the original arcade games. it really gives you the "cheap mobile game" feeling. The game also has characters from another game called ghostlop, which doesn't fit into the game at all. Could have spent that time making more MagiDrop characters as there are only eleven in the game while MD3 had over twenty.

Worst part is that the Developer Golgoth Studio promised a patch that would fix the issues in the game. It was supposed to be released somewhere during 2013, but right now is 2015 and I'm still waiting for that patch. Well, not seriously waiting for it, but still. Same studio has also a Toki remake in the works. Or had. It was greenlit in 2013 and there has been no word about it after that, so it's probably vaporware now.

If you liked Magical Drop, don't buy this game. If you are just looking for a cheap puzzle game, then don't buy this game. It's not worth it and there are better alternatives available.

Although it is like your classic bubble shooter game, you will not grow bored of this game. It may seem easy at first but you will soon learn you have a challenge. A challenge that has you addicted to playing for hours till you beat that person. The characters are adorable and the dialogue is hilarious.

I recommend this game to anyone who likes challenging games. If you finish the story mode you would be very happy. When I finish it I was jumping aroung crazy I wouldnt even speak. This came is very colorful and amazing.

I'll be honest, this game is actually fun just like the good old Magical Drop games for the arcade (at least if you're lucky enough to avoid the so reported crashes like me).

Unfortunately I just can't recommend this game because its developers proved themselves to be extremely incompetent.They promised a big patch and never released it nor even mentioned about it ever again since 2013. The game, albeit functional, is clearly unfinished. I don't think they deserve your dollar if they'll keep lacking some proper devs and a proper PR department. They abandoned this game, plain and simple.

Awful art style, and annoying characters. However, the gameplay is fun for a couple hours. I'd recommend picking up the game with a friend, and playing with them if you really want to play a new puzzle game.

Basically, this game is ♥♥♥♥, hardly plays like a Magical Drop game, and everyone who bought it got lied to. The Golgoth Studio team are geniuses at marketing nostalgia, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ all over nerds' expectations, and running off with their money.

So FRUUUSTRATING! Mainly because it has so much potential, however many key things about the game is broken or lacking.

I've had several crashes, no native joystick/gamepad support, alt-tab during a game over causes issues on comming back. The AI on normal is absurdly easy then becomes absurdly difficult (may be on my part, however good old google fails to bring up much on strategies or information on the game other than old hype and reviews), buttons fail to respond when many things are going on concurrently.

Aside from all the complaning its' the basis of a really GREAT game, and that's really just a shame. The music, and voice acting are confusingly lightyears more polished than the rest of the gameplay & art.

I wish I could give this game a Yes/No recommendation, No to the game, yes to the ideas and concepts it has.

I really want to recommend this game, because it is Magical Drop, and Magical Drop is one of the best puzzle games out there (1000x better than Bust a Move, which is so meh). And this is Magical Drop, but it's Magical Drop without Puzzle Mode, or the Quest Mode that was added in Magical Drop 3.

All it has available is Versus Mode, either in Story Mode or Online. Which is basically where you play Magical Drop against an npc or other player, to see who can get the most matches the fastest.

Puzzle Mode was just an endless mode by yourself, to see how long you could keep going before the game beat you. It got progressively harder as you went along, and it was the most fun mode in the game.

Quest mode added a small RPG element, or more board game element to the game, although not sure if that would work the same without requiring quarters like the arcade version did.

ANYWAY, for $.99 ($.89 on sale), the game is pretty fun, but without Puzzle Mode, it's just not complete. Until that is fixed, I can't really recommend it.

OH ALSO, this game does not like to run in full screen mode on large monitors, so run it windowed.

Do not buy this game. The game was released in Nov. 2012 in an unfinished state. Many people were patient because the devs said a patch was coming. Weeks went by. Then months. Then the price of the game was permanently dropped by 50%. Golgoth repeatedly posts on the forums "We're working on it! Patch will release soon! Blame the publisher"! Endless excuses.

The patch we have been waiting on for months was promised to be released before 2014, as they said in the forums. It's January 3, 2014 and there is no patch.

This wouldn't be a big deal if the game was listed as early access, because then I would have an idea of what I was getting into. However, this game is marketed as a finished product and it's not.

This is exactly why I have not bought anything on Steam since I bought this game in late 2012.

I picked up the Magical Drop series randomly through an emulator a couple years ago. I fell in love with it. So imagine my surprise when I see this on Steam! Of course I grabbed it, and so far, it's been nothing but fun. It's not too complex, but it's pretty damn fast. Well worth it.

I don't know why people say game is bad. I played it for awhile and did not notice anything wrong out of the ordinary and my video card is not even a Geforce 8800 but rather a mobile Geforce 8400M GS with a 2.4 ghz processor and 4GB Ram and it runs smoothly. Game is a bit quick on the reflexes however - you need a quick thumb on the dpad and the buttons in order to clear those bubbles. Think of Bust A Move on steroids except your in a magical tarot fantasy setting and not a dinosaur land like Bub and Bob was in Bubble Bobble. I have not played the online mode but don't think I want to play this mode because I always play games by myself. Easily worth the 89 cent purchase during the sale. Hey I don't whine I just buy on sale :)

From the love of Magical Drop III comes my hatred for the unpolished and unsupported westernized "MDV".

The game is broken, period. The glitches will show up sooner or later, specially with the special blocks that randomly won't work during chains. I did the un-fun tedious method to unlock a certain character, it doesn't work for me at all thanks to the glitch (**ck the character select code for Magical Drop III 3x "C"). Lack of communication and support from the developer makes this alpha test product irrelevant at best ( http://i.imgur.com/FQpuSl4.png ).

No wonder is one dollar lol.

I liked the game at the beginning, but the issues I experienced during my local playthroughs made me depise it. Until its fixed my opinion won't change.

I will keep this thing called a "game" as a reminder of a mistaken purchase I shouldn't have done...